Moving images to a new HD?

I'm not where I can test it right now, but will shortly need to move about 10k images that were previously imported into LR from one HD to another.
Will I be able to just point Lightroom to this new drive where images were moved to (preserving the directory structure & images therein), but the drive letter is different?

Roger,
I just did this operation yesterday. I bought a larger HD, dragged the images in their folders to the new HD, then disconnected the old HD.
I then started LR. All the thumbnails had "?" on them. This is how I got things back in order:
1. I selected a folder of images.
2. I selected all the thumbnails from that folder.
3. I clicked the "?" icon on the first thumbnail.
4. In the resulting dialog box, I clicked "OK" to find the image.
5. I migrated to the image within it's new folder via the dialog, and clicked the go button.
6. LR then proceeded to reconnect to every photo in that folder.
7. I repeated steps 1 thru 6 for each folder of images.
LR kept the name of each folder, but tagged the end of the name w/the name of the new HD, which I don't want. I double-clicked each folder and took off that extra name suffix.
There may be another way to do this, but this one worked for me.
good luck,
jeff

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> Stu
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